Student Storage Near Pomona College | Pomona Student Storage
By late April a room in Mudd-Blaisdell holds more than it arrived with: a mini-fridge, a printer, four seasons of clothes and a bike. The vast majority of Sagehens live on campus, and every one of those rooms has to be empty by noon on the Saturday after finals, or noon on the Monday after Commencement if you are the one graduating. Pomona College stores none of it over the summer. The trails up into Angeles National Forest keep until September; a desk chair in Harwood Court does not. That gap is what student storage near Pomona College fills, and it starts in the room rather than at a counter across town. Student self-storage near Pomona College without a car is what most of them are actually looking for.
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At the south end of campus, Claremont Village takes most of the eating and the browsing. A few blocks north, California Botanic Garden holds a collection of California natives that most students visit exactly once. Further up the road, Mount Baldy has the hiking, and the skiing, in the years there is enough of it. Then May arrives, the college sets a date, and everything in that room has to be somewhere else by it.
Why Pomona Students Need Student Storage Near Pomona College
Housing sets that deadline and it does not move. Keys go back within forty-eight hours or the lock is changed and you are billed for the change. Rooms reopen for incoming students on August 22 and for returning students on the last weekend of August, which leaves fourteen weeks in between with nowhere on campus for a desk chair to sit. The college says so on its own closing page: Pomona does not offer storage through the summer. What it offers is a list of other people to call.
Sagehens come from across the country and from abroad, and a good share of any class will have spent a term studying somewhere off campus before they graduate. For a student flying to Seoul or Chicago on the Monday after Commencement, the question is not which unit is cheapest. It is who carries the mini-fridge down out of Harwood Court while the last final is still being graded. Pomona College was founded in 1887 and has stood in Claremont since 1889. The shape of the year has not changed: the room fills between September and April, and then it has to be empty.
The Traditional Pomona College Summer Storage Experience
The answer most students find first is a self storage unit somewhere off Arrow Highway. That works if you have a car, a free afternoon and someone to hold the door. Without a car it means borrowing one, or renting a truck for the day, or talking a friend with a hatchback into four trips between a room in Smiley and a roll-up door in Upland. Then the same four trips in reverse in August, in a week when you have just landed.
There is a version where a parent flies in and takes it on. Two or three nights in a hotel, a rental car, a truck by the day with mileage and insurance on top, and the trip has cost more than the storage it was booked to arrange. It also assumes the week runs to plan. Commencement is on the Saturday, the room has to be empty at noon, and ReCoop is collecting whatever is not going into storage in the days before.
Box-n-Go: Student Self-Storage Near Pomona College Made Simple
Box-n-Go runs it the other way around. The container or the boxes come to the room, a crew carries out whatever you are storing, and it goes into an indoor warehouse until you say where to send it back. Nobody drives to Upland, nobody rents anything, and the only date you have to keep is the one you chose. If none of this is familiar, Your Guide to Storage and Moving with Box-n-Go runs through the sequence from first call to final delivery.
Self-Load Flex Storage Container: Student Storage Pomona College for Apartments
If a desk and a bed frame are coming out of the room too, book the container instead. The Self-Load Flex container measures eight feet by five by seven, and it is delivered to the building, the house, or one of the two lots Pomona assigns for containers: the North Campus lot at 8th Street and Amherst, and Kenyon House on South Campus. It sits on the ground the whole time it is there, so there is no ramp, no dock and nothing to climb. Loading it is a job you can hand off: Loading Help for Box-n-Go Storage Containers explains how.
The window on campus is short. The container arrives about four days before move-out and is collected by the Monday after it. Four days is enough to load a room properly instead of in one panicked afternoon. When it is full we take the whole container away to an indoor warehouse, and in August it comes back to whatever address you are living at by then. That is the shape of it when there are bed frames, desks and chairs going in alongside the boxes.
A suite or a sponsor group can put one container between them and split it. If nobody in the group wants to do the lifting, loading help can be booked to do it instead.
A La Carte Valet: Pomona Dorm Storage
For dorm residents and students with fewer belongings, the A La Carte Valet service is how you get storage units near Pomona College without renting one. You pay by the box, so a room that yields nine boxes, a lamp and a fan costs what nine boxes, a lamp and a fan cost, rather than what an empty unit costs.
A kit lands in the mail ahead of pickup day, holding five Box-n-Go U Boxes, packing tape and a marker. Five is where most students begin rather than where they stop, so ask for more boxes, change what the kit holds before it ships, or pack into your own boxes instead. The board is heavier than what a hardware store sells and the flaps overlap the whole way across, which matters when a box spends fourteen weeks near the bottom of a stack instead of being carried once across a room. Pack over several evenings if that suits you, then book the slot. Our crew comes up to your room on the day you choose, labels every item for tracking, carries it down to the truck, and moves it into secure indoor storage until it is carried back to your room in the fall.
Boxes are not the limit. Bicycles, mini-fridges, desk chairs and a Sontag Hall futon all go on the same list. Paying by the box means a first-year with a bike and eight cartons is not underwriting anyone else's furniture. It costs what the room actually holds, which is the difference for a first-year whose parents would otherwise fly across the country to help carry it.
Lease Gap Solutions
The few Sagehens living off campus hit a different version of it. A Claremont lease that ends in June and one that starts in late August leave a stretch where the rent is being paid on an empty room. Storing the contents rather than renting the space is the cheaper half of that arithmetic. It covers that stretch, and everything comes back on the day the new lease begins.
Study Abroad Storage
Roughly half of each class studies off campus at some point, across seventy programs in thirty-eight countries and more. No airline baggage allowance covers a printer, and shipping it and shipping it back costs more than the printer. Everything waits in the warehouse for the length of the program, and the return date can move when the program does.
Internship and Co-op Programs
A summer job in another city has the same shape. A furnished sublet has no room for a second desk chair, so the campus version of your life waits here until the job ends.
Storage Units Near Pomona College Options
If you would rather rent a unit and drive to it yourself, these are the nearest. Box-n-Go covers the whole of Claremont and the 91711 ZIP code including all Claremont Colleges. Each one is a unit you rent and fill on your own:
- Extra Space Storage, 525 W Arrow Hwy, Claremont, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 127 S Euclid Ave, Upland, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 711 S Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 5548 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 1960 S San Dimas Canyon Rd, La Verne, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 730 E 1st St, Pomona, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 135 S Campus Ave, Upland, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 1640 N White Ave, La Verne, CA 91711
These facilities all serve the Claremont area and rent by the unit, and every one of them assumes you have a car. Pomona College storage services that collect from the room are the other way of doing it, and Box-n-Go is the one where the driving is not yours.
What Students and Parents Say
From students and parents who have used the service at campuses across Southern California. More of them are on Box-n-Go Customer Reviews.
"I used Box-n-Go for USC summer storage program. Stan answered questions and gave me some helpful tips. I got my things back last week and will use them again next summer."
- Letitia C.
"I'm a UCLA sophomore that is an out-of-state student so storing my belongings was a MUST between school years! Boxngo has truly been so helpful along the way with their easy online booking process and helpful phone attendants that have always picked up and helped me when needed. My FABULOUS mover Henry moved my stuff last summer and dropped my stuff off again today and he is suuuuch a superstar! When UCLA traffic workers told him he couldn't park near me he parked very far away and hiked about a 1/4 of a mile to get all SEVEN of my boxes to me in a sound and efficient manner! They bring your boxes all the way up to your room so I did virtually none of the work! Henry is truly my bestie and YALL SHOULD GIVE HIM A RAISE... give him a raise... he deserves it!! Thanks Henry and BoxnGo!!"
- Oliver S., UCLA, CA
"Customer service was excellent. Strongly recommend. Contracted Box-n-Go to pick up my daughters furniture at USC, store for the summer and drop back off when school started. Seamless efficient process. Customer service was excellent. Strongly recommend."
- Barry M., USC Parent
"My daughter has been doing business with Box-n-Go for three years. Every year she must place her personal items in storage over the summer school break. The service provided is affordable and reliable. Frank is a good listener and makes great moving suggestion saving the client money and time. This year frank coordinated an unusual move and request for my daughter. Frank as always made it happen smoothly. Helping Hands is a great service also, especially if the move requires going up and down stairs. My daughter has never experienced any damage to her possessions when items were in storage or when helping hands assisted with the move. We are very satisfied customers and would recommend Box-n-Go for your next move and storage! Thanks frank for all that you have done for us overs the many years!"
- Diane R., Pasadena, CA - Parent
Pomona Student Storage Tips: Preparing for Move-Out Success
Most of the damage every May comes from four things: food, liquids, mini-fridges and open toiletries. The list below is what keeps them out of the warehouse:
- Keep every box under fifty pounds. Overloaded boxes are unsafe to lift and collapse when stacked.
- Nothing that pours, nothing that spoils. Shampoo, detergent, half-finished drinks and anything sealed in the pantry all find a way out in a warm truck. Tape the lids, bag them, or leave them behind.
- Defrost the mini-fridge a day before pickup. Then clean and dry it, and clean the microwave. A fridge packed damp comes back smelling of what was in it.
- Label all sides of every box. Student name, a phone number, and where it is going. Boxes are stacked, and the top is the one face nobody can read.
- Trash bags are dust covers, not luggage. Never let one carry weight. Roll mattress toppers rather than folding them, and bag them.
- Pad anything breakable and mark it fragile. Wrap each piece individually. Nothing loose rattling in drawers.
- Photograph the inside of each box before taping it. It takes a second and it is the only inventory anybody actually keeps.
- Keep passport, medication, laptop and chargers with you. Nothing needed in the next few days goes into storage.
Packing and Protecting: How to Box, Wrap and Prep Your Belongings deals with the breakable end of the list.
Everything above is set out step by step in the student storage move-out checklist, which is worth reading before the first box is taped.
Frequently Asked Questions: Storage Near Pomona College
Can I access my belongings while they're in storage?
Yes, with notice. Ask a day or two ahead and we pull what you need from the warehouse. It is not drive-up access, so tell us which box before the visit rather than after you arrive.
| Self Load | A la Carte Valet | |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Prep | You | You |
| Pack Boxes | You | You |
| Load Storage | You | We Do |
| Prorate | Yes | No |
| Access Notice | 1 Day | 3 Day |
| Min. Return Notice | 7 Days | 5 Days |
Are there student discounts available on storage?
Ask when you book. Student rates and seasonal offers change through the year, and reserving early is usually where the better price is anyway.
When is the best time to book student storage?
Seven to eight weeks before finals. The Claremont move-out rush takes the good pickup slots first, and booking early is what fixes the date you actually want.
Should I use on-campus storage if my school offers it?
Pomona does not keep anything over the summer, so there is nothing on campus to weigh it against. The real choice is between renting a unit and booking a service that collects from the room, and it comes down to whether you have a car at both ends of the summer.
What items should NOT be stored?
No food or anything perishable, no liquids, no aerosols or hazardous materials. Keep cash, jewelry, passports, medication and anything irreplaceable with you rather than in a box.
Does Box-n-Go deliver to my new dorm or apartment?
Yes. We deliver directly to your new Pomona residence or off-campus Claremont address. Update your delivery address through your online account once you know your fall housing assignment.
Box-n-Go Student Storage at Nearby Southern California Schools
The same service runs at the other Claremont campuses and across Southern California. The rest of the campuses nearby:
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Pitzer College Student Storage
Scripps College Student Storage
Harvey Mudd College Student Storage
Claremont McKenna College Student Storage
University of La Verne Student Storage
Storage Resources for Sagehens
Box-n-Go supports Pomona students through the whole cycle, from dorm storage after the thesis crunch to summer break storage when the halls close. Every campus we cover sits under student storage services. Why Box-n-Go Storage and Moving sets out the problem the company was built to solve, and Advantages: Why Box-n-Go Beats Storage and Moving Companies puts a container beside a rented unit.
Get Started with Pomona College Student Storage Today
Book it before finals week rather than during it. The dates around Commencement go first and they go from the deadline backwards. A container for an off-campus apartment, A La Carte for a room in Wig: neither one is complicated.
Call Box-n-Go and hold a date for the week of Commencement: 877-269-6461
The Google Business Profile has the reviews that did not fit on this page, and the map of the area we cover.
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